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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Enable the ability to create custom asset objects directly through the user interface.

Currently, users can only create custom asset objects using the REST API, which may be challenging for those who are not familiar with API interactions. By adding support for creating custom asset types directly through the user interface, users w...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists

Add support for JKS (Java KeyStore) files in connection configurations.

Add more connection options to support JKS (Java KeyStore) files instead of only allowing SSL certificates in plain text format. Currently, connection configurations only permit the use of SSL certificates in text form, which limits flexibility an...
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Separate configuration files from attachment files

The settings and attachment files are together on the file server and there is no way to distinguish them, we need a way to distinguish between the 2 types of filessystem configuration files together with attached files can even be included in a n...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Cognos Analytics - Control Over Interactivity

Currently options exist at report level to either enable or disable full interactivity. We would like more control over this functionality, perhaps at the object level.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ForceReevaluationOfFeedersOnDimensionChange

Data got incorrectly calculated / underfed due to a dimension structure change, either: An element moved from another hierarchy to a hierarchy/rollup where feeders pointed to. A new element added to a hierarchy/rollup where feeders pointed to. The...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add REMARKS column to SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and COMMENT support for database object

We would like to ask you, to add the REMARKS column in SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and support for COMMENT statement for databases. There is no possibility currently to store some form of a description for databases in DB2 catalog. In big sites where thous...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Convert xlsx files to csv as an option to Allow file upload

In PAW, the recent option to Allow file upload on a button would require users to upload their files in .csv format, meaning they have to convert their .xlsx or .xlsm files locally and then drag and drop the files in the file upload screen. Altern...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Database sends (DBS) should fail

In Pafe when a user executes a DBS against a cell which is not writeable the formula returns the value of the cell. Not writeable means C level, read-only access, write access but locked. This is counter productive, the job of the formula is to...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Provide basic Set of Utilities required to work with Cognos Analytics

IBM provided a host of Tools like Dispatcher Diagnostic tool, CM Tools, JGetInfo, LogViewerV2 among others directly as a download for customers or in the product. Currently some of these Tools are no longer available. For others you have to contac...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need a utility to defragment large tables in a timely fashion when REORG is unable to reclaim space

Large, highly volatile, tables can become heavily fragmented when there is a significant amount of daily delete and insert activity. In some cases, the rows deleted don't leave enough empty space on a page for a REORG to clean up or reclaim that s...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration